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Introducing PST — A Community Framework for Modern Pawn Development

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:14:27 +0000

Hello everyone,

For years, the SA-MP and now open.mp development landscape has suffered from a lack of unified engineering standards. While tools like "SAMPCTL" and libraries like "YSI" brought modern workflows to the ecosystem, the way we structure our code, handle encodings, and write scripts remains highly fragmented.

To bridge this gap, I am introducing PST (Pawn Standards and Techniques) — an open, community-driven initiative inspired by Python's PEPs, aimed at standardizing modern Pawn development.

Official Repository: https://github.com/daniilkorochansky/pst

What is PST?
PST(Pawn Standards and Techniques) is not a forced set of rules; it is a compilation of best practices, style guides, and architectural patterns agreed upon by the community to ensure code readability, maintainability, and tool compatibility.

The introduction consists of the first two draft specifications:
PST-0001 (Code Style Guide): Enforcing clear formatting standards (Tabs for indentation, Allman braces style, strict naming conventions) and resolving the legacy encoding mess by introducing explicit PEP 263-inspired(Python) encoding comments (e.g., `// -*- coding: utf-8 -*-`) for better IDE compatibility (Spawn IDE supports this capability).
PST-0002 (Project Structure and Includes): Moving away from 100k-line monolithic files into a clean, component-based layout utilizing modern hooking systems "y_hooks" and mandatory include guards.

Automation & Delivery
To keep the specification easily accessible, we treat PST as a rolling-release framework. Every update is automatically compiled into a clean, standardized PDF specification book, which you can always grab from the repository's deployment assets.

Need Your Input!
PST belongs to the community. I want to explicitly invite developers, include creators, and the open.mp/sampctl core teams to review these drafts.

If you agree, disagree, or want to propose a new technique (e.g., modern database handling or event patterns), please open an Issue or a Pull Request using templates.

omp_npc not working

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:13:26 +0000

I can create and spawn NPC, but they dont move, and make weird teleportations when assigned to a path.

pawnobots for openmp

Mon, 11 May 2026 15:23:02 +0000

Hi everyone, im new in openmp.

Whit my team decided to pass our server from 0.3.7 to openmp, and we found some issues whit some systems.

One of them, its the pawnobots plugin. When i try to load it up, i got a segemntation fault error, i would like to know how can i solve this issue or if its a new plugin for this on openmp

Open Multiplayer ✅ logging into SA-MP server after importing database

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:19:47 +0000

delete

problem dialog clan members

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:30:41 +0000

hello,

i have a problem too it doesn't display the dialog for clan members,

code:

case 1: {
new szDialog2[1024], Members, name[180], cwarn[180], cdays[180], szRank1[180];

format(query, sizeof(query), "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`Clan` = '%d' ORDER BY `users`.`ClanRank` DESC LIMIT 50", PlayerInfo[playerid][pClan]);
new Cache: result = mysql_query(SQL, query);

strcat(szDialog2, "#. Name\tRank\tClan Warns\tClan Days\n");
for(new i, j = cache_get_row_count (); i != j; ++i)
{
cache_get_field_content(i, "Username", name);
cache_get_field_content(i, "ClanRank", szRank1);
cache_get_field_content(i, "ClanWarns", cwarn);
cache_get_field_content(i, "ClanDays", cdays);

format(Selected[playerid][Members], MAX_PLAYER_NAME, name);
format(szDialog, sizeof(szDialog), "%d. %s\t%d\t%s/3\t%s\n", Members+1, name, strval(szRank1), cwarn, cdays);
strcat(szDialog2, szDialog);
Members++;
}
cache_delete(result);
ShowPlayerDialog(playerid, DIALOG_CLAN_MEMBERS, DIALOG_STYLE_TABLIST_HEADERS, "Clan members", szDialog2, "Ok", "Back");
}

Real-time pathfinder, optimized for thousands of calculations/tick

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:06:46 +0000

https://linkfile.io/s/96

Showcase of the plugin. There are 800 NPCs spawned.
The pathfinder is aware of obstacles, steep angles, water, etc.
This is work in progress.

Need assistance

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:44:38 +0000

PHP Code:
if(strcmp(cmd, "/resfacveh", true) == 0 || strcmp(cmd, "/rffv", true) == 0) // by Mikkel Reimer
{
    if(IsPlayerConnected(playerid))
    {
        if(!IsACop(playerid))
{
    SendClientMessage(playerid, COLOR_GRAD1, "  you are not authorized to use that command!");
    return 1;
}
new bool:unwanted[LSPDCars];
for(new player=0; player<MAX_PLAYERS; player++)
    {
            if(IsPlayerInAnyVehicle(player)) { unwanted[GetPlayerVehicleID(player)]=true; }
    }
for(new LSPDCars = 1; LSPDCars <= 25; LSPDCars++)
{
if(!unwanted[LSPDCars]) SetVehicleToRespawn(LSPDCars);
}
GetPlayerName(playerid, sendername, sizeof(sendername));
format(string, sizeof(string), "SERVER: "COL_WHITE"All unused vehicles were respawned by Administrator %s.", sendername);
SendClientMessageToAll(COLOR_YELLOW,string);
}
return 1;
} 

I keep getting error with the "bool:unwanted" line trying to work out another way to to detect and avoid respawning vehicles that dont have a driver
Any help or advise would be appreciated...

Original Godfather

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:35:40 +0000

Hello there,

does anyone have the original Godfather Script released by FeaR? All the download links are either dead or just edits of the script.

BR

Problem with MAP. Please help!

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:39:57 +0000

I'm working on a map with procedural generation that includes around 2000–4000+ objects. However, I'm currently stuck with a rendering issue.
When I rotate the camera, some objects behave strangely — they appear and disappear randomly, like flickering or popping in and out of view.

Here are two screenshots showing the issue from different camera rotations:
https://imgur.com/a/9ppoWAI

Does anyone know how to fix this or what might be causing it?

I get since compiler and ysi includes update errors

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:29:24 +0000

.....

[HELP] Back to Pawn Scripting [Newbie[

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:54:07 +0000

Hello guys, so last time when i was active i used to know few things here and there, and i still Do but need some revision.
now on the problem which am facing is:

1: Older Game-mode which was complied via older version of Pawno. ( I See there is a newer Version of this ) so what whould be the correct way to do the conversion ?

2: I'm a Bit Confused on SAMPCTL And getting the Complier on VSCode which i now use to Practics my Python ( i'm Learning Python )

3: Some older Game-mode do not support the lastest Plugins ie: streamer by Incognito, sscanf by Y-Less, zcmd by Zeex.

4: Is there any tutorials which will help on the confusing i have on SAMPCTL Oh one more i did manage to Use Pawno in Vscode also SAMPCTL but it's a Mess please see screen shot.

5: Now what i have been trying to do is Re-Create / Modifiy PPC_Trucking Game mode By PowerPC603, Also do anyone have the Full Package of it? i Remember it didn't had PPC_Houseing as Include now i see 80 Percentage of the functions are in Includes. i want all the code inside one Single file. [b][url=https://sampforum.blast.hk/member.php?action=profile&uid=109984][/url][/b]

6: Apolagies if i Posted on the Wrong Thread also i came back for Nostalgia with the hope of being a Good Scripter since am also Learning another language.

Thank you for Reading this whole thing if you did not understand some lines please comment, my english is not top of the line since it is not my 1st language.

Regards
- King

press enter instead of /enter

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:22:10 +0000

I have made a code for pressing "y" to enter a house which works fine but the exit code doesnt work, When i am inside the house interior /exit cmd doesnt work either but if i enter the house with /enter then /exit works fine.
I am new to scripting so dont know if i am missing something or what, any input would be greatly appreciated...

Code:
// House entry

    if(newkeys & KEY_YES)

    {

    for(new i = 0; i < sizeof(HouseInfo); i++)

{

        if(IsPlayerInRangeOfPoint(playerid, 3, HouseInfo[i][hExteriorX], HouseInfo[i][hExteriorY], HouseInfo[i][hExteriorZ]))

        {

SetPlayerInterior( playerid, HouseInfo[i][hInteriorID]);

SetPlayerVirtualWorld( playerid, HouseInfo[i][hVirWorld]);

PlayerInfo[playerid][pVirtualWorld] = HouseInfo[i][hVirWorld];

SetPlayerPos( playerid, HouseInfo[i][hInteriorX], HouseInfo[i][hInteriorY], HouseInfo[i][hInteriorZ]);

}

}

return 1;

}

// House exit

if(newkeys & KEY_YES)

    {

    for(new i = 0; i < sizeof(HouseInfo); i++)

{

        if(IsPlayerInRangeOfPoint(playerid, 3, HouseInfo[PlayerInfo[playerid][InHouse]][hInteriorX], HouseInfo[PlayerInfo[playerid][InHouse]][hInteriorY], HouseInfo[PlayerInfo[playerid][InHouse]][hInteriorZ]))

{

PlayerInfo[playerid][pVirtualWorld] = 0;

  SetPlayerVirtualWorld(playerid, 0);

      SetPlayerInterior(playerid, HouseInfo[i][hExteriorID]);

      SetPlayerPos(playerid, HouseInfo[i][hExteriorX], HouseInfo[i][hExteriorY], HouseInfo[i][hExteriorZ]);

}

}

return 1;

}

Need help, problem when i update streamer 2.9.3 to 2.9.6

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:21:36 +0000

After i change the streamer plugin in the includes folder, i try to compile and i get all of this warnings and errors! the ones from the GM are related to those 2 functionsnullnullnull

https://imgur.com/a/QM5N87l

Compilation error

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:00:05 +0000

I recieve this error message

Quote:C:\Users\unity\Documents\Server\qawno\include\sscanf2.inc(33) : user error: Please include or first.

Compilation aborted.

Pawn compiler 3.10.11 Copyright © 1997-2006, ITB CompuPhase

but in my gamemode file it is already included

Image

Please help me someone

Hiring SA-MP Scripter(s) — Vice City RP (Unique RP Systems, Level-Based Jobs, Custom

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:02:08 +0000

Hello,
We’re seeking experienced SA-MP scripters to help develop Vice City RP, a unique SA-MP roleplay project aiming to bring modern RP features into San Andreas Multiplayer.
Planned features:

GTA V–style character creation (first for SA-MP)
Level-based jobs with skill progression (e.g., drug/gun smuggling unlocks better items over time)
Dynamic dealerships with stock limits, player restocking jobs, and used car trade-ins
Custom weapons & interiors for businesses and homes
Balanced RP environment with Admin oversight but gameplay-focused progression

We can handle basic server setup and scripting, but we’re looking for devs to build custom systems and polish existing ones. Payment can be discussed based on scope.
If you’re interested in helping create a fresh, competitive, and fun RP server, please reach out via Discord: https://discord.gg/YbNxuGpcKG